Dobby - Glad you had a good time! Our diets sound similar and yea weight loss is all about a caloric deficit. You can exercise and eat all your calls back and not lose a pound. Tracking calories until I formed good habits was key for me. It's shocking how many calories there are in some foods. I generally do eggs, yogurt, or oatmeal for breakfast, a salad or sandwich for lunch, and grilled boneless skinless chicken breast with a dark green vegetable and half a sweet potato. I've found though that once I hit a certain weight it's more about toning and building muscle than losing weight.
C slept 7.5 hours last night!!! Guess the wedding we took her to really tuckered her out
. She did great. It was just really hot so she refused to eat under the cover. Luckily there was a guest house with a love seat that I could use when bfing. Her little cousin Warner was just fascinated by her. He kept leaning in and staring at her and saying that he loves her. He''s two. At one point all of the little cousins were crowded around her just staring at her.
Oh I also had the joy of the grandmother of the bride coming up to me and telling me that I insulted her and all of my husband's family by not taking his name, and that I'm not a part of the family bc of it. She later came up and said that she had something terrible to tell me. Her granddaughter isn't taking her new husband's name either
. I brushed it off and just said it's a generational thing, and then she told my husband of three years, partner for ten, friend of thirteen years, and the father of my child, "just don't give her access to your bank accounts." Man what a different way of looking at a woman's role in this world! I have a higher degree than my husband, and we are equal income earners. We have combined our finances for ease of functioning as a familial unit, but I don't need his bank accounts thank you very much. So glad to live in a time when I, as a woman, have that freedom and independence. I choose to be with my husband because he brings happiness, love, and support to my life every day, not because I'm dependent upon him. I am deeply committed to him. I just show it other ways, and isn't that our business not hers? It just always saddens me when other women insult me for exercising the freedom we now have. I wanted to ask her if she's no longer a part of the family that raised her because she changed her name, or if her daughters were no longer a part of her family because they changed their names when they married. Ugh I could go on for ages, so I'll end there, but yea just ugh!
